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Information is power. Information is security. Plans made with imperfect information are fatally flawed, will fail or succeed on the toss of a coin.

Odd people, as I said, and I owe them a great deal, though they would be offended and distressed to think anyone owed them anything.

I was under no illusions as to my physical attractiveness. It was not such that it would inspire propriety-overwhelming enthusiasm.

But the angrier you get the more painstakingly correct your speech becomes,

'Star Trek' still - I'm kind of intrigued by the way that the standard foods of various non-humans are sometimes portrayed as downright disgusting.

I'm Breq, from the Gerentate.

Virtues may be made to serve whatever end profits you. Still, they exist and will influence your actions. Your choices.

You and your ship will immediately familiarize yourselves with the guidelines for dealing with citizen civilians. And you will follow them.

You can kill me, you mean. You can destroy my sense of self and replace it with one you approve of.

Virtue is not a solitary, uncomplicated thing.

Now, I personally enjoy a really good footnote.

Children are all sorts of people,

Civilian casualties?" I asked.
"There always are.

I think I made my first short fiction sale in 2005. I had been writing unsuccessfully before that.

If anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, civilisation will be in a bad way.

It was a proverb. Or half of one. Water will wear away stone, but it won't cook supper. Everything has its own strengths.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

Let every act be just, and proper, and beneficial.

When I'm writing, I don't really have much other guide than, 'As a reader, how would I respond to this?'

Singing together is something human beings just do, and there are hundreds of years worth of just European vocal music available to read and hear.

We sit here arguing, we can hardly agree on anything, and then you go straight to my heart like that. We must be family.

Falling didn't bother me. I could fall forever and not be hurt. It's stopping that's the problem.

You do have a thousand years' seniority, after all."
"A thousand years' back pay," said a dock inspector, in an awed voice.

Just how good of a citizen does one have to be" I asked, "in order to have water, air, and medical help?

Nineteen years, three months, and one week before I found Seivarden in the snow, I was a troop carrier orbiting the planet Shis'urna.

I can't see potato chips being popular where there's not land to grow potatoes in or where frying in lots of oil isn't easy or convenient.

We are all of us only human. We can only forgive so much.

No Justice of Toren medic would give One Esk a body with a voice like Breq's. Not unless she wanted to seriously annoy the Esk lieutenants.

Ifs and would-haves changed nothing.

The flower of justice is peace,

I don't think anybody submits their first story and sells right away.

In non-fiction, I found John Gardner's two writing books to be tremendously helpful.

Not tea but blood!

Now that's something different! I'm not bored of buckets yet!

I've always enjoyed making up stories, especially when I was bored and just sitting around. It got really serious after the children came along.

Sit up straight, Dlique. Don't dismember your sister, Dlique, it isn't nice. Internal organs belong inside your body, Dlique.

In that case," I said, "go fuck yourself." Which she could actually, literally do, in fact.

No real endings, no final perfect happiness, no irredeemable despair. Meetings, yes, breakfasts and suppers.

I've been a fan of Jack Vance since before I was in high school.

I knew and cared nothing about the will of the gods. I only knew that I would land where I myself had been cast, wherever that would be.

If that's what you're willing to do for someone you hate, what would you do for someone you love?

It's always for show, Citizen. It is entirely possible to grieve with no outward sign. These things are meant to let others know about it.

I will share one of them with you now: most people don't want trouble, but frightened people are liable to do very dangerous things.

Fortunately or unfortunately, NaNoWriMo requires you to write at a breakneck pace, so I got used to just pushing on through.

I had learned to be wary whenever a priest suggested that her personal aims were, in fact, God's will.

'Ancillary Sword' picked up the Locus and the BSFA, which surprised the heck out of me.

If there was anything any Radchaai considered essential for civilised life, it was tea.

Science fiction is huge and varied, and there's almost any sort of book or story you might imagine.

I'd run straight into a bulkhead trying to walk and receive data at the same time ...

Good necessitates evil.

We have a saying, where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness.

Fuck, you are an ancillary!

You call that rest, do you?" asked Medic. "Up until the bomb went off, yes.

Security is here to protect citizens. You can't do that if you insist on seeing any of them as adversaries.

I'd say my biggest influences are writers like Andre Norton and, particularly when it comes to the Radch, C.J. Cherryh.

You don't need to know the odds. You need to know how to do the thing you're trying to do. And then you need to do it.

Ships have feelings.

It's the people without the money and the power, who desperately want to live, for those people small things aren't small at all.

And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and raped and stolen from?

There are two parts to reacting aren't there? How you feel and what you do. And its the thing you do that is the important one.

The tyrant had said our backgrounds were similar, and in some ways they were.

Memory is an event horizon What's caught in it is gone but it's always there.

I do realize the impulse to classify people by the food and art they consume is strong - sometimes I have to remind myself not to do that.

I didn't get where I am by having reasonable goals

If you're going to make a desperate, hopeless act of defiance you should make it a good one.

It's so easy, isn't it, to decide the people you're fighting aren't really human. Or maybe you have to do it, to be able to kill them.

Good, good. Always remember, Fleet Captain - internal organs belong inside your body. And blood belongs inside your veins.

The Internet really lets people connect that wouldn't have in the past, and lets conversations happen and connections happen.

Children are all sorts of people, aren't they, and I suppose if I knew more I'd find some I like and some I don't, just like everyone else.

Fuck! Is that what Special Missions is like?

Choose my aim, take one step and then the next. It had never been anything else.

I've seen music and songs used in stories, and while sometimes it works really well, often it doesn't.

When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

To be Radchaai is to be civilised.

From a child I was taught to forgive and forget, but it's difficult to forget these things, the loss of parents, of children and grandchildren.

Varden's suppurating cuticles," said Seivarden. "Lieutenant,

People are who they are, because oft the world they are living in.
The world is as it is, because of the people living in it.

If you can't access it, all the resources in the universe won't do you any good.

Any attempt to list the ten best science fiction novels is doomed to failure.

The 'science' in 'science fiction' isn't just physics and engineering. It can also be linguistics, anthropology, and psychology.

It had been, for both of our lives. Frantic action, then months or even years waiting for something to happen.

Writing was something I always as a kid thought would be fabulous and glamorous to be a writer.

When I was a kid, I had no perception whatever that science fiction was supposed to be a boys' club.

Have a beer instead.

So much is metaphor, an inadequately material way to speak of immaterial things.

When I need to get away from my desk, I tend to take walks or go places. I also like to bead - working with beads to make jewellery.

Betrayer! Long ago we promised
To exchange equally, gift for gift.
Take this curse: What you destroy will destroy you.

The point is, there is no point. Choose your own!

People don't riot for no reason.

What, after all, was the point of civilisation if not the well-being of citizens?

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

But I had never noticed that anyone profited from needless spite,

Sometimes it feels it's us and Ship against everyone else.

In the end it's only ever been one step, and then the next.

It's personal. It was just that with me personal affected a great many others.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

The natural environment of humans - space stations, ships, constructed habitats.

Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many of them.

Governor Giarod was fairly good at not panicking visibly, but, I had discovered, not good at actually not panicking.